Some Port houses wore their colours on the fence in the lead up to the election on 18 May. The four polling booths in Port Melbourne – Bubup Womindjeka, Fishermans Bend Community Centre, Albert Park Arts & Environment Hub and Port Melbourne Primary School – were busy from poll opening at 8 am to the […]
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PORT PLACES
Docklands
POPS
Last week I ascended the stair for the first time. The instagramable Denton Corker Marshall designed stair leads to the Sky Park. I’d been keen, very keen, to see the new Park which opened earlier this year. It is just the first part of a 2,000 sq m open space to be delivered as part […]
Port & South
The olive harvest
They arrive at about 8 am – swirling, screeching flocks of little corellas. There’s such a carry on that curious children come to their front doors to see what’s going on. There are so many birds that they weigh down the already heavily laden olive trees on the nature strips. They gorge – completely indifferent […]
Fishermans Bend & Montague
Moving parts
Some drivers waiting for the 109 tram to pass were intrigued by the scrap metal spilling from the backyard of a house in Ingles St, Port Melbourne. The house was sold. The business moved about 1km down the road to a site at 199 – 201 Normanby Road. Frugal Ann M, who kept her depression […]
News & Views
Federal election in Macnamara
Some Port houses wore their colours on the fence in the lead up to the election on 18 May. The four polling booths in Port Melbourne – Bubup Womindjeka, Fishermans Bend Community Centre, Albert Park Arts & Environment Hub and Port Melbourne Primary School – were busy from poll opening at 8 am to the […]
Port of Melbourne
Another anniversary
Cars, planes and now ships: Some anniversaries are so significant because of their unfolding ramifications they are worth recording even though the date has passed. In March 1969, Melbourne’s first container dock was completed, in time for the arrival of the first container ship in April. The container revolution was on the horizon from the […]
PORT & SOUTH MELBOURNE
The olive harvest
They arrive at about 8 am – swirling, screeching flocks of little corellas. There’s such a carry on that curious children come to their front doors to see what’s going on. There are so many birds that they weigh down the already heavily laden olive trees on the nature strips. They gorge – completely indifferent […]
FISHERMANS BEND & MONTAGUE
Moving parts
Some drivers waiting for the 109 tram to pass were intrigued by the scrap metal spilling from the backyard of a house in Ingles St, Port Melbourne. The house was sold. The business moved about 1km down the road to a site at 199 – 201 Normanby Road. Frugal Ann M, who kept her depression […]
DOCKLANDS
POPS
Last week I ascended the stair for the first time. The instagramable Denton Corker Marshall designed stair leads to the Sky Park. I’d been keen, very keen, to see the new Park which opened earlier this year. It is just the first part of a 2,000 sq m open space to be delivered as part […]